
NAACP Creative Fest 2025

Calling All Creatives
The NAACP Creative Fest 2025, powered by Adobe, is a focused event for editors, motion graphics artists & modern post-production professionals. This event is free to the public!
EVENT SCHEDULE
12:00PM-1:00PM - Content Creation for Social Media
Content creators Nate Norell and Antonio Neville offer strategies for content, engagement, and growth to help creators at any level build a successful presence and stand out in today's fast-moving digital media landscape.
1:15PM-2:15PM - Navigating 3D design, Motion Graphics & Virtual Production
Award-winning artist Jonathan Winbush shares insights on 3D design, virtual production and motion graphics, offering creative workflows and strategies to help emerging editors and creators bring their stories to life with cutting-edge.
2:30PM-3:30PM - Al Tools Transforming Post Production
Adobe certified trainer Christine Steele and Keycode Media's Michael Kammes explores Al-powered tools, plugins and platforms transforming editing while addressing evolving regulations and ethics to equip creators with the knowledge to navigate the future of film, television, and digital media.
4:30PM-5:30PM - Shaping Story Together
This panel, featuring Richard Lyons, Wendy Calhoun, and moderator Kyle Bowser, explores how collaboration between directors, showrunners and editors shapes narrative and storytelling in film and television.
5:45PM-6:45PM - The Art of the Cut
Trailblazing editors Maysie Hoy and Lillian Benson, joined by moderator Shaheed Qaasim, explore the art and impact of storytelling through the editor's lens in this craft conversation.
6:45PM-7:30PM - Networking Reception
MEET THE PANELISTS
Content Creation for Social Media

Antonio Neville
Comedian, Actor, Content Creator
@HeyTonytv

Nate Norell
Director, Actor, Content Creator
@Natenorell
Navigating 3D design, Motion Graphics & Virtual Production

Jonathan Winbush
Motion Graphics Artist & Animator TV / Film / VR
Al Tools Transforming Post Production

Michael Kammes
Senior Director, Innovation Keycode Media

Christine Steele
Owner, Steele Pictures & Adobe Certified Instructor
Shaping Story Together

Wendy Calhoun
TV Showrunner

Richard Lyons
TV and Film Director

Kyle Bowser
SVP, Hollywood Bureau
Moderator
The Art of the Cut

Maysie Hoy
Film Editor and Actress

Lillian Benson
Film Editor

Shaheed Qaasim
Television Editor
Moderator